File - AJHS General Music
... • Born in Leipzig, Austria in 1813 • But was known as a German composer • Considered the most battle-scarred and controversial composer of the Romantic period, his peers called him a vain and unprincipled egotist • 1849- went into exile for 12 years because of his alleged membership in anarchist ...
... • Born in Leipzig, Austria in 1813 • But was known as a German composer • Considered the most battle-scarred and controversial composer of the Romantic period, his peers called him a vain and unprincipled egotist • 1849- went into exile for 12 years because of his alleged membership in anarchist ...
Alimelek - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... good in itself, and requiring care and delicacy of treatment. But in this resolve he was considerably guided by the bias of friendship. He fixed upon young Mayerbeer's opera of "Alimalek," given in Vienna under the title of "The Two Caliphs," and known under other names in various parts or Germany. ...
... good in itself, and requiring care and delicacy of treatment. But in this resolve he was considerably guided by the bias of friendship. He fixed upon young Mayerbeer's opera of "Alimalek," given in Vienna under the title of "The Two Caliphs," and known under other names in various parts or Germany. ...
Panel abstract
... aged 39, he had a rather illustrious European career behind him, performing with many of the foremost singers and composers of his age: He’d been engaged at the Tyl-theatre in Prague as a young man, 1800–1805, he’d been at La Scala, Milan (1805–6), then at King’s Theatre, London 1806–9, including a ...
... aged 39, he had a rather illustrious European career behind him, performing with many of the foremost singers and composers of his age: He’d been engaged at the Tyl-theatre in Prague as a young man, 1800–1805, he’d been at La Scala, Milan (1805–6), then at King’s Theatre, London 1806–9, including a ...
STRAUSS - SCHOENBERG TRANSFIGURED NIGHT
... universe gleams! There is a radiance over everything’). The music shows influences from Brahms, Wagner and the composer’s teacher Alexander von Zemlinsky (with whose sister Mathilde he was newly in love at the time he composed Verklärte Nacht; they married in 1901). The work had a mixed reception on ...
... universe gleams! There is a radiance over everything’). The music shows influences from Brahms, Wagner and the composer’s teacher Alexander von Zemlinsky (with whose sister Mathilde he was newly in love at the time he composed Verklärte Nacht; they married in 1901). The work had a mixed reception on ...
Vol 3 - Whitwell - Essays on the Origins of Western Music
... And this is exactly what they did in the first operas. They have left a kind of rhythmic-melodic sketch in notation, leaving to the singers the duty of adding the emotions through their style of singing and especially through improvisation, a subject to which one of the founders of opera, Caccini, ...
... And this is exactly what they did in the first operas. They have left a kind of rhythmic-melodic sketch in notation, leaving to the singers the duty of adding the emotions through their style of singing and especially through improvisation, a subject to which one of the founders of opera, Caccini, ...
Rediscovered Treasures II
... serious opera, and many of his female roles were conceived for his wife, the soprano Faustina Bordoni, to sing. “Pallido il sole” quickly became one of the showpieces in the castrato singer Farinelli’s ...
... serious opera, and many of his female roles were conceived for his wife, the soprano Faustina Bordoni, to sing. “Pallido il sole” quickly became one of the showpieces in the castrato singer Farinelli’s ...
| MUSICAL HIGHLIGHTS
... scored a success with a particular aria and it had become what we would call a hit, a pastiche gave him or her a chance to repeat that performance, much to the delight of the paying audience. This was especially important since composers in the Baroque era would tailor their arias to the taste and a ...
... scored a success with a particular aria and it had become what we would call a hit, a pastiche gave him or her a chance to repeat that performance, much to the delight of the paying audience. This was especially important since composers in the Baroque era would tailor their arias to the taste and a ...
MEANINGS OF VOCAL EXPRESSIVITY IN MUSICAL DRAMA
... characters’ psychological climate, as well as the pursuit of the poetic idea of the libretto idea gained new meanings in the creation of Italian opera composers – Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi. Aesthetics of Italian opera is based on the singable song. Giuseppe Verdi does not abandon this metho ...
... characters’ psychological climate, as well as the pursuit of the poetic idea of the libretto idea gained new meanings in the creation of Italian opera composers – Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi. Aesthetics of Italian opera is based on the singable song. Giuseppe Verdi does not abandon this metho ...
Broadway Musical Comic Opera And Operetta Week 3
... "I Fratelli Mario" follows the basic story line of the Super Mario Brothers video game but with some twists. ...
... "I Fratelli Mario" follows the basic story line of the Super Mario Brothers video game but with some twists. ...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (Mozart`s childhood home i
... greatest examples of the genre. Its success led Mozart to take up residence in Vienna. The break with Salzburg marked the beginning of Mozart's maturity as a composer; nearly every work he produced thereafter is a masterpiece. In 1782, he wrote Die Entfuhrung auf dem Serail (The Abduction from the S ...
... greatest examples of the genre. Its success led Mozart to take up residence in Vienna. The break with Salzburg marked the beginning of Mozart's maturity as a composer; nearly every work he produced thereafter is a masterpiece. In 1782, he wrote Die Entfuhrung auf dem Serail (The Abduction from the S ...
PROGRAM NOTES Richard Strauss Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
... Strauss felt the need for a change of pace, and he was overheard saying, “Now I shall write a Mozart opera.” Hofmannsthal knew precisely what Strauss wanted, and the new libretto he mailed in installments practically set itself to music, as the composer later commented. Nevertheless, it took Strauss ...
... Strauss felt the need for a change of pace, and he was overheard saying, “Now I shall write a Mozart opera.” Hofmannsthal knew precisely what Strauss wanted, and the new libretto he mailed in installments practically set itself to music, as the composer later commented. Nevertheless, it took Strauss ...
Lecture Slides
... Opera • beyond Italy, opera was slow to develop • France, Spain, and England enjoyed their ...
... Opera • beyond Italy, opera was slow to develop • France, Spain, and England enjoyed their ...
composers - Liberty Union
... later in life has been attributed variously to lead poisoning, typhus, and childhood beatings from his alcoholic father. Works include The Kreutzer Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, and The Creatures of Prometheus. ...
... later in life has been attributed variously to lead poisoning, typhus, and childhood beatings from his alcoholic father. Works include The Kreutzer Sonata, Fur Elise, Fidelio, and The Creatures of Prometheus. ...
The Dream of Valentino
... commission by Washington and Dallas operas, the work received its world premiere in 1994 at The Kennedy Center, where it was described by the Chicago Tribune as “visually and theatrically ... a thumping success.” Eric Simonson (The Grapes of Wrath, Silent Night) directs and Maestro Christoph Campest ...
... commission by Washington and Dallas operas, the work received its world premiere in 1994 at The Kennedy Center, where it was described by the Chicago Tribune as “visually and theatrically ... a thumping success.” Eric Simonson (The Grapes of Wrath, Silent Night) directs and Maestro Christoph Campest ...
lecture notes - Midcoast Senior College
... PLEASE NOTE: For the purposes of this course, today’s class will explore, not only the nation of Germany, but the German-speaking composers of Austria as well. I’ll try to make it clear when we are talking about the nation, and when about culturally-German composers of Austria. Germany, the largest ...
... PLEASE NOTE: For the purposes of this course, today’s class will explore, not only the nation of Germany, but the German-speaking composers of Austria as well. I’ll try to make it clear when we are talking about the nation, and when about culturally-German composers of Austria. Germany, the largest ...
About the Music - portlandsymphony.org
... romantic artist: he was a virtuoso pianist, the most important conductor of his day (and the first to insist on complete control of every aspect of an opera production), a music critic, novelist, and artist . As a composer his effect on the music world was wide and deep. After Beethoven, Weber was t ...
... romantic artist: he was a virtuoso pianist, the most important conductor of his day (and the first to insist on complete control of every aspect of an opera production), a music critic, novelist, and artist . As a composer his effect on the music world was wide and deep. After Beethoven, Weber was t ...
3 - The Castle Practice
... Much unfavourable literary criticism of the opera libretto by British writers should properly have been directed at the English translations in which operas were heard and read. Translators into English experience difficulties in finding equivalents in their basically iambic language for the normall ...
... Much unfavourable literary criticism of the opera libretto by British writers should properly have been directed at the English translations in which operas were heard and read. Translators into English experience difficulties in finding equivalents in their basically iambic language for the normall ...
File - SDC music resources
... Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini continued Italian opera’s dominance through their innovations in both opera seria and opera buffa. ...
... Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini continued Italian opera’s dominance through their innovations in both opera seria and opera buffa. ...
Charles Burney, The Present State of Music in Germany
... Christoph Willibald Gluck’s first reform opera was Orfeo, which premiered in Venice in 1762 and then in Paris, in a revised French-version, in 1774. In the preface to his second reform opera, Alceste, Gluck states clearly what he had found objectionable in the opera seria of the day. Extrapolating f ...
... Christoph Willibald Gluck’s first reform opera was Orfeo, which premiered in Venice in 1762 and then in Paris, in a revised French-version, in 1774. In the preface to his second reform opera, Alceste, Gluck states clearly what he had found objectionable in the opera seria of the day. Extrapolating f ...
Document
... opéra comiques with ariettes, mixed Italian-French styles vaudevilles gradually replaced by ariettes end of 1760s all music freshly composed spoken dialogue instead of recitative ...
... opéra comiques with ariettes, mixed Italian-French styles vaudevilles gradually replaced by ariettes end of 1760s all music freshly composed spoken dialogue instead of recitative ...
April 2, 3, 2016 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770
... Born 1770, Bonn, Germany; died 1827, Vienna, Austria Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 First Classics performance: April 1, 1947, conducted by William Steinberg; most recent performance: November 17, 1991, conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies; duration 8 minutes This masterpiece of dramatic music by Beethoven ...
... Born 1770, Bonn, Germany; died 1827, Vienna, Austria Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 First Classics performance: April 1, 1947, conducted by William Steinberg; most recent performance: November 17, 1991, conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies; duration 8 minutes This masterpiece of dramatic music by Beethoven ...
Des Teufels Lustschloss - The Oxford and Cambridge Musical Club
... that none of us has ever heard. In this bicentenary year especially, simple affection and curiosity leads us to seek an opportunity to make our own judgment, whatever the earnest pronouncements of earlier authorities. But is there a stronger case to be made, for intrinsic qualities in the music, per ...
... that none of us has ever heard. In this bicentenary year especially, simple affection and curiosity leads us to seek an opportunity to make our own judgment, whatever the earnest pronouncements of earlier authorities. But is there a stronger case to be made, for intrinsic qualities in the music, per ...
Opera in German
Opera in German is the opera of the German-speaking countries. These include Germany, Austria, and the German states that preceded those countries.German-language opera appeared remarkably quickly after the birth of opera itself in Italy. The first Italian opera was Jacopo Peri's Dafne of 1598. In 1627, Heinrich Schütz provided the music for a German translation of the same libretto. Yet during much of the 17th and 18th centuries German-language opera would struggle to emerge from the shadow of its Italian-language rival, with leading German-born composers such as Handel and Gluck opting to work in foreign traditions such as opera seria.Some Baroque composers, such as Reinhard Keiser, did try to challenge Italian dominance, and the theatre principal Abel Seyler became an eager promoter of German opera in the 1770s, but it was only with the appearance of Mozart that a lasting tradition of serious German-language opera was established. Mozart took the simple, popular genre of Singspiel and turned it into something far more sophisticated. Beethoven followed his example with the idealistic Fidelio; and with Der Freischütz of 1821, Weber established a uniquely German form of opera under the influence of Romanticism. Weber's innovations were eclipsed by those of Richard Wagner, one of the most revolutionary and controversial figures in musical history. Wagner strove to achieve his ideal of opera as ""music drama"", eliminating all distinction between aria and recitative, employing a complex web of leitmotifs and vastly increasing the power and richness of the orchestra. Wagner also drew on Germanic mythology in his huge operatic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.After Wagner, opera could never be the same again, so great was his influence. The most successful of his followers was Richard Strauss. Opera flourished in German-speaking lands in the early 20th century in the hands of figures such as Hindemith, Busoni and Kurt Weill until Adolf Hitler's seizure of power forced many composers into silence or exile. After World War II young opera writers were inspired by the example of Schoenberg and Berg who had pioneered modernist techniques such as atonality and serialism in the earlier decades of the century. Composers at work in the field of opera today include Hans Werner Henze.As the names of Mozart, Weber, Wagner, Richard Strauss and Berg indicate, Germany and Austria have one of the strongest operatic traditions in European culture. This is also evidenced by the large number of opera houses, particularly in Germany where almost every major city has its own theatre for staging such works, as well as internationally renowned operatic events such as the Salzburg Music Festival.